Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-27
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

"A man named Gilbert is said to
have walked and run from Paris to
Boiogne, 156 miles, in thirty-six con-
secutive hours. or at the average rate
OF four and one-third miles per hour.
According to the English surveyor
general OF prisons, the number of
criminals in England is only about
one-dfth as large as it was fifty years
ago. Had the number kept pace with
the increase of population it would
have been double. This is a remarka-
bile showing.
I'm the garden of Madame Reynen,
at Roosteren, in Holland. is weeping
rose tree so large that thirty perform
ers were able to sit togeth-
er beneath its branches in Civ
ing a concert this summer. It is
sixty-fve feet in circumference, and
the number of roses upon it at the time
OF the performance was estimated at
ten thousand.
The Germans have given the name
of Luderitzland to their newly-ac-
quired possessions in Southwestern
Africa Recent explorations confirm
the Impressions as to the utter sterility
of this part of Africa which have hith-
erto prevailed; and it seems certain
that large portion of the colony
probably three-quarters of its entire
areas unfit for human habitation. =
~ Y Ledger.
The popular idea which assumes
that many foreigners reside in japan.
and that large numbers are en-
ployed in the government serv-
ice. is very erroneous. According to
the latest returns, the total number of
foreign residents IS 1856, of which
only 592 are Americans. There are
but 1874 foreigners altogether in the
public service. of which number only
IL are Americans. Transcript
The results of the survey and last
census of India are that the area of
the peninsula of Hindoostan is 1. 3S2,
624 square miles. and the population
253, S91, 1921. Although immense tracts
of country are annually cultivated, &C
cording to the most recent survey TO-
900. 900 acres of land, suitable for Gull
tivation, have not as yet been plowed.
At the same time 12O, 900, 900 of acres
are returned as waste lands,
The valleys of Upper Austria are
delightful to the tourist who just
passes through them, but they are I'M
endurable to any one brought up
amid wide horizons who has to stay
for any length of time in them.
Vienna is cursed with perhaps the
Double windows and houses thickly
coated with paint and silicate varnish
do not protect from the dry and icy
winds that prevail for many months,
or from the dust storms.
Sugar manufacturers in Austria
are in a very unsettled condition. ow-
ing partly to doubts as to what will be
the result of the conference on the
subject of sugar bounties which has
been proposed by England. As it is,
the statistics relating to the prices in the
sugar market during the last six years
are by no means satisfactory, as they
show falling off of at least twenty
five per cent. Although this is the
case no reduction in price has been
obtained by consumers at home.
dnstrteS.
"A company in Birmingham, En-
gland, are completing large central
plant for furnishing compressed a ir
through mains to the owners of small
engines. Trials already made are said
to have shown that the cost to con-
sumers will be considerably less than
the cost of steam made on the prem
Uses. Besides doing away with the
dirt and dust from the coal, and the
saving of room, the use of compressed
air is said to furnish excellent means
of ventilation. An excellent feature
of the charter of this company is
clause compelling them to divide all
profits over ten per cent. with the con-
sumers. Opinion
One of the most remarkable
mountain formations in the world is
the Temple Mountain, on Sassen bay,
in Spitzbergen. 1t was visited last
summer by DR.. Kuckenthal, German
geographer, who accompanied whal-
ing expedition to the Arctic seas. He
described it at recent meeting of the
Berlin Geographical Society. IA wall
of rock. about six miles long and
thirty-three hundred feet high, rises
perpendicularly out of the water. 1t
is composed of confused mass of lofty
pillars and columns, with arches and
windows between, which are grouped
together and form three distinct series.
one above the other. The whole,
shining with yellowish brown color
in the distance, gives the impression of
a gigantic temple structure. The
mountain is rooted with level plain
of SNOWY. Y Ledger.
THE TRAINING OE LIONS.